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<h1>Zk | Workshop - First sentences with Jay Nicorvo</h1>
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<h1 id="workshop-first-sentences-with-jay-nicorvo">Workshop &mdash; First Sentences with Jay Nicorvo</h1>
<p>Starting sentences with &ldquo;It is&hellip;&rdquo; (or was, etc)</p>
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<li>Only add a third word &mdash; &ldquo;It was television.&rdquo;</li>
<li>Stretch it out, less than ten words &mdash; &ldquo;It was television, pure and simple, without dispute.&rdquo;</li>
<li>Let it ramble &mdash; &ldquo;It was television, pure and simple, without dispute, and though some may dispute <em>that</em>, I maintain that it stands still as the platonic ideal, a metonym for all shows that come after, the Ur-show that took a genre, a medium, a generation away from tenuous explorations and shoved it without remorse into the world we inhabit today, and one might wonder, should such a thing not have happened, how unfortunate and insipid our lives-in-entertainment might be today.&rdquo;</li>
<li>Now replace that sentence without &ldquo;It is&rdquo; to be more evocative &mdash; &ldquo;Television, pure and simple, without dispute. There&rsquo;s no way that we can take what we had from that show and say anything but. I maintain that it <em>still</em> stands as the platonic ideal, a metonym for all shows that came after. It was the Ur-show that took a genre, a medium, a generation away from the tenuous explorations and shoved, without remorse into the world we inhabit today. And one might wonder, should such a thing not have happened, how unfortunate and insipid our lives-in-entertainment might be today.&rdquo;</li>
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<p>It sets up a mystery that leaves the reader (and even the writer) questioning what it actually is that we&rsquo;re talking about. I like the circumlocution aspect of it, talking about an unknown (unknowable?) thing.</p>
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